Published: 22 August, 2025
The buzz that’s been growing around Georgian wine has been hard to miss, with this interest stretching back perhaps a decade or more as wine-curious consumers lap up the story of 500-plus indigenous varieties, backed by 8,000 years of winemaking tradition, all from a far-flung European frontier. And for those seeking authenticity and individuality in their glass, images of qvevris – although only used for a small but increasing percentage of wines produced – are the icing on the cake.
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Georgian wine has shown positive momentum in UK supermarkets, with a 200% sales increase seen at M&S in 2024 and increased distribution at Waitrose too.
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Georgian winery Tbilvino has launched its new premium wine collection in the UK through Berkmann Wine Cellars.
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Few could miss the Georgia stand at this year’s London Wine Fair, with this on-trend country planting 16 of its producers on a sizable stand at the centre of the hall. And this enlarged presence sets the tone for the rest of this year, following an uplift in UK volume sales of Georgian wines of 72% in 2024, backed by an increase of investment in the British market by 50% for 2025.
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The Ultimate CEE Wine Fair is returning to London on Monday 9 June with a bigger line-up of exhibitors and three new winemaking countries.
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Published: 01 April, 2025
Artist-turned-winemaker and restaurateur John Wurdeman explains to Andrew Catchpole how he came to be at the forefront of Georgia’s natural wine movement.
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Published: 07 March, 2025
Cachet Wine has received its latest shipment of wine from Georgian winemaker Giorgi Solomnishvili (pictured). The well-respected winemaker’s cellars are situated in Telavi in the Kahketi region, Eastern Georgia’s premier wine producing region.
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Published: 11 December, 2024
Georgia’s wines have certainly been turning heads, though with such a multifaceted offer it’s difficult to pin down one clear identity. Ideal, says Andrew Catchpole, for an increasingly wine-adventurous world.
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Published: 26 August, 2024
Arguably the birthplace of wine, Georgian winemaking is steeped in tradition and, as James Lawrence explains, has much to offer UK consumers.
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New UK-based wine agency business H&K Wine Agencies is set to represent Cremisan Winery as its broker in the UK in what is believed to currently be the only Palestine producer to be offered here from the Middle-Eastern territories.
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Justin Keay contemplates the potential impact of the coming showcase for Central and Eastern European wines.
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Published: 15 December, 2023
Armenia has a thriving wine industry, as Jacopo Mazzeo discovers, but faces an uphill battle to establish itself on the world stage.
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Published: 13 October, 2022
There’s nowhere in the wine world quite like Georgia. Anyone visiting the country will have heard this mantra. It seems to accompany any discussion of the country’s wines, with their unique qvevris – egg-shaped earthenware buried underground – helping to make wine on the slopes of the South Caucasus for some 8,000 years.
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Published: 21 February, 2022
Following another year of strong export growth in the UK, the National Wine Agency of Georgia has confirmed an expanded promotional campaign for Britain.
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Exports of Georgian wine to the UK soared 60% in volume in the last year, albeit from a small base.
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Qvevri has become the first non-agricultural product to be added to the Georgian State Registry of Protected Geographical Indication (PGI).
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Published: 20 November, 2020
Georgian wine exports to the UK continued to rise in the last year, albeit from a small platform, trebling in volume and exceeding £754,000 in value.
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Published: 04 August, 2020
Amathus Drinks has added Georgian winery Dugladze to its portfolio, marking is first listing from the country as it continues to diversify and expand its portfolio.
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Published: 21 April, 2020
Georgian wine exports to the UK surged, albeit from a small platform, in the first quarter of this year boosted by a quartet of new importers.
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Published: 19 February, 2020
Assembling a fantastic panel to peer through the prism of wine to explore upcoming trends promised to be a novel adventure. Especially in front of a knowledge-thirsty, wine-savvy audience. And so it proved when Harpers partnered with Berkmann Wine Cellars at its lively annual London tasting to lead a Taste the Trends seminar, which threw the spotlight on some of the most meaningful and sustainable developments in the wine world today.
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